Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our weekly
video game show here at Gie First. I'm your host el.
Mustn't have with me the Elden Lord Girklyn Patza. Welcome
to the show, my friend.
Speaker 2: I'm doing really good. I'm doing really good.
Speaker 3: We were just saying off cast is kind of as
a Sunday feel to it, and I kind of like it,
so yeah, I'm excited to talk about it. I got
some big accomplishments to kind of praise myself all and
I feel like it's a life goal to be in
this position that I'm at now, and no, I'm feeling good.
Speaker 2: I think it'll be a good cast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we really should have hit record. A couple of
minutes ago. We were just nostalgia talking about old weird
Canadian shows like Yvanna the Yukon, Angela and Da Kon
and Dave the Barbarian and things like that, which probably
would have been a fun conversation for people for people
to hear any any Canadian listeners save.
Speaker 2: That for our Bread and Breder maybe exactly you and
media that episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that'll be a good time. But yeah, today's
episode is gonna be fun. Well, we're gonna be talking
about elden Ring Kirkland's accomplishment there. We're also gonna be
talking to our favorite Soul's game bosses and least favorite,
so that's gonna be fun as well. I also have
some games I've been playing but Kirkland. Before we get
into any of that, I wanted to show you a
recent purchase. I always like to share my my things
that I get with. You got the physical version of
this is like a limited run thing that they did,
which comes with all sorts of stuff. This is like
the switch version, so of course it has, you know,
like the actual switch case and stuff because they didn't
normally make it some fun art inside there comes with
like this cute little uh for like bug Hunter, one
of my one of my favorite games in the collection.
Speaker 3: Is it a working floppy disc If you have a
floppy disk drive, can you run that?
Speaker 1: You know, it's just cardboard, so I don't think just
let your bed on fire. There's a bunch of stickers,
very cute little stickers, like kind of all the little
characters representing different games and stuff. You can see put
many of the yeah, and then some I didn't even
know why I had these ones. I was just opening
this to show you, and then I found some more
in here.
Speaker 2: Oh there you go.
Speaker 1: So some very cute little the weird little moon cat,
egg egg bean creature.
Speaker 2: Kidney kidney shaped object.
Speaker 1: I like, got this one thing I really like here.
There's a it's like a hand it's like you know,
it's printed, but it's like a hand drawn map like
you would make as a kid when you're like charting
out a level or something like that. Yeah, like you know,
this one is like you know, planning out like a
level or something like that. And there's even like little
red marks of like where you would write stuff. I
really like. There's like a little coffee stain, like an
intentional coffee stay in the top of this.
Speaker 2: Too, which is very cute attention to detail.
Speaker 1: And then of course the head honcho here is like
the full UFO fifty companion book. So there's like a
page it's almost like it's like two pages for every
single game in here, so you know, the classic strategy
guide stuff of like all the stats, all the different characters,
maps for games, and like none of the you know
you for fifty doesn't have tutorials, it doesn't have maps
for any of the games. So many of the games
are impossible to figure out, and so I mean this
would have been nice when I when the game first
came out, but it's just really there's like things the
notes of the back here. There's like stickers. When you
like get the cherry cartridges for the different games, you're
supposed to like take those off and like plant them
down when you when you complete it. So very happy
with this. With this purchase, you have a fifty very
special game, very cool game, and very much like of
the time when you would have strategy game strategy guides
and you have physical versions and stuff. So it just
feels right to have something physical for this game. So
very very happy with this purchase.
Speaker 2: I bet it smells like yu Yo cards too.
Speaker 3: I always love that smell of a fresh, fresh game
companion novel. Yeah, absolutely, no, that's awesome. It's funny like
looking back on that era. I remember famously my cousin
had the like strategy guide for Legendzelda wind Waker, and
like there's probably internet back then, but like definitely no smartphones,
so it'd be like like very limited access to like
online guides and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So that was like the Holy Bible.
Speaker 3: Like if somebody had those like companion pieces, they were
just changing the whole game of especially a game like
Legend Zelda that yeah, you know doesn't have really great
quest indicator markers, especially those earlier titles. So yeah, it
was just a powerful piece to be claim.
Speaker 1: Of those yourself. For specific games, I didn't have a lot.
I just had like a handful. So the ones I
did I did have like art quite memory.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had like Warcraft three and like Agent Mythology
ones like all those art like definitely all like the
PC games that I had as a kid. Uh, probably
like Simpson's Hit and Run, but like that was very limited.
I don't think they were like strategy guys on there.
It's just like I remember flipping through because you know
they'd come in a box and then they would always
have at least a manual or something about uh, just
some content in the game. I think Star Wars battle
Front two had one also also that was like Star
Wars battle for two. I remember that one had like
five discs. It was like five or six install discs.
It's funny just looking back on on that, how you'd
have like a play disc and then just a bunch
of different installed discs just to get the game going.
But uh, yeah, I think it was just kind of
Warcraft three that I had, like an actual bigger one,
and that was awesome because that was like getting into
the lore and just the different factions, the different races,
and I think that just like just found my love
for that universe. It's probably a good thing that I
never got like World Warcraft back in the day, because
I probably I would have been hooked for life, I
think if I got into that game at that time,
because I.
Speaker 2: Was just so in love with the lore.
Speaker 3: Fortunately, you know, the RTS game did a really good
job with the story and everything also, so I just
got hooked on that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think that's it.
Speaker 3: And then, of course, like I said, the Legionzellda Winwaker one,
but I think that was just my cousin that owned that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, speaking of Agian Mythology, did you listen to
that song?
Speaker 2: I did. Actually, it's really good age of mythology kid.
I really really liked it.
Speaker 3: I feel like it reminds me of a similar type
of vibe that I've listened to in the past. So
I'm kind of surprised that I haven't just heard it
on like my Spotify radios, because you know, like sometimes
they'll just they'll play songs that sound similar.
Speaker 1: Like Under the Radar Band at this point. Yeah, I mean,
it seems like they've been doing a lot of marketing
with this album, so maybe they'll blow up a little
bit more. But yeah, I mean, I guess they're little too. Yeah,
I put on coming in the rotation I put on.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I clicked on the whole album
or if I just like went to the radio of
that specific song souse. I remember a couple other ones
by them pulled up, but yeah, no, I really liked it.
Good recommendation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. The two guidebooks that come to mind for me.
One is Animal Crossing on the game Cube, and that
was great because you know, there's so many cheat codes
in that game, like there's a cheek code for like
just an insane amount of furniture and things like that.
So it was really nice to just have like this
full catalog like Jews whatever you want, and it would
show you like the full sets, and each page would
have like here's what all like the kittie furniture looks like,
here's what like the exotic furniture looks like and yeah,
I remember that one. I think it probably had like
a little bio on all the different villagers. So I
remember like as a kid, me and my sister looking
through that and like, oh, really want to like get
this one to come to our island. I don't know
if there's way you can, Like I think it's just
completely random, right, but we were just looking through like hoping,
hoping that this one would show up one day off
the train. And then the other big one for me
was definitely fire Arms on the Sacred Stones, and that
was great because it had you know, all the all
the classes, all the I mean the art in that
game is amazing, so even just looking through the art
was really fun. But it had like all the classes,
the growth, the the you know subclasses, the trees that
they would build into, and it kind of like recommended
character builds to do for each character, had like full
glossy of all items in that. And then you know
in every fire Bloom game it's always like if you
walk onto this specific tile and you have like fourteen
luck or whatever, it is like you'll get some random
item drop. So just like have that for all these
certain maps, like whenever you're on like a desert map,
there's always hidden items all over the place, right, and
so to have like, okay, and if you send these
six squares, you have like a fifteen percent chance to
get this thing. And I just remember, like I still
even play throughs later, if I wouldn't open the book again,
I would still remember, like, oh yeah, I think if
I go roughly right here with a character that has
like high looks dad, that I'm gonna be able to
find some item here, you know, details like the different
routes and all that kind of stuff. So those are
the two that I remember. I don't know where that
firem Bloom one went. I know I've looked forward in
recent years, and who the heck knows where it is
in my parents' house. I hope it's not gone forever.
I'd like to find that again one day. But I
think I have the Animal Crossing one in my house
somewhere now. But yeah, I miss miss those days. I
think they probably still make some of those, Like obviously
UFO fifty just got one here, but that's like a
limited run thing. They don't just spam them for every
game these days. But I mean even just in general,
physical hard physical anything for games just kind of going
away a little bit other than actual consoles.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean even.
Speaker 3: Like the retail stores, right, Like there's way less like
ev games and game stops and stuff like that around.
Speaker 2: At least in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, honestly, maybe there are still tons of
these books and I just don't even go to the
store to like see if they are there. Maybe that's
what it is there. I feel like there's very few games,
you know, it is very few, Like I'll get limited
edition for like Splunky two or you know, Into the
Breach when they did that UFO fifty. Usually for like
more indie indie things is more because it's just rare
to find physical anything for like smaller indie gas and whatnot.
But uh m hmm, there's a fun little tangent there.
How about with that we can jump into games we've
been playing. I'll start with my stuff because we can
build up yeers because yours will kind of segue perfectly
into our main topic later in the episode. But I
think it's now is a good time for me to
talk a little bit about Spider Man two, which I've
been playing. Oh cool for like a couple months, very slowly,
Like I think I'm like ten hours in over the
course of like literally two months, so I'm just chipping
away everyone. So I haven't really played a lot of
games recently. I blasted through Requiel, but other than that,
not really gaming a ton right now for whatever reason.
But yeah, Spider Man two tons of fun so far. Unsurprisingly,
I think one of the things that I actually randomly
like the most is just like the expansion of the
map and going like across the bridges to like the
more suburb areas on like the I guess it would
be what would that be that's like the east side
of the map, I suppose, okay, which is weird because
it's like, you know, there isn't like super tall buildings there,
so you think, like the swinging is like a little
bit less, but there's like tons of trees everywhere. You
can still like attached to non existent buildings, of course,
because they just make it so you can fly around
and whatnot. But I don't know, it just seemed like
a fun addition to have this kind of totally different
area to explore, and it feels like in general everything's
just like a little bit a little bit bigger, even
though it's quite familiar, and then obviously adding like the
wingsuit and because you're going more across the bridges and stuff,
having like the water movement of like skitting around on
the water and then like swinging underneath the bridges or
like you know, doing the ziplash thing to like go
across the boats and whatnot. Just like I feel like
even more fun things to the locomotion, which is kind
of surprising because the game already like moves super well.
But even just all these things, there's like aerial drafts,
right because of like the wingsuit and whatnot. But yeah,
I feel like just moving around, Like sometimes I just
boot up the game, don't even like do anything, I
just just fly around and I just kind of get
the satisfaction out of playing it that way. Then obviously,
like the two characters feel a little bit different as well,
even though they're mostly got the same move set. But
I think that was like, yeah, maybe I just again,
it's so much fun to move around in those games,
and they've somehow even added more to that. It makes
me wonder like how that's gonna feel in Wolverine, Like
how fun is it gonna be a move in Wolverine,
especially compared to their last games, they could feel like
sluggish and clunky.
Speaker 3: I don't know, And yeah, I feel like he still
moves pretty fluidly though, like Wolverine, even though he's not
swinging around like he's still you know, he's an animalybe
use the bike.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's just for cutscenes or if
you actually get to drive. We'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, that's awesome. How are you liking like the
story so far? Yeah, it's all that.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good. I mean, I guess it's a lot more.
It feels a lot more fractured than the first game,
just because you are I guess like for the story,
it's kind of like, Okay, if you want to progress
the main story, you gotta like play Miles right now,
you gotta play Peter. But it just feels like there's
a lot more going on. It feels somewhat us focused
so far. But at the same time, I feel like
this is very much like a it's almost like a
sandbox playground type of game anyway, so to just kind
of let you do whatever you want, Like obviously, it's
so easy to get distracted because anytime you go anywhere,
it's like, oh, there's a crime happening one hundred meters away,
and it's like, Okay, I'm gonna spend thirty seconds doing that,
and then oh, there's a backpack on there and go do that.
Oh there's a quest over here. Oh there's two guys
playing chess. I'm gonna take a picture of that, because
it's I don't know, some XP or whatever. So it's
very easy to get distracted. But I know, I really
like the stuff with Harry. That's that's more just like
kicking in right now with where I'm at in the
story again because I'm not too far in at this point,
but like him, I guess a little bit spoilers for
a game that's years old now at this point, but yeah,
like him getting the symbiote stuff and still kind of
figuring out what's going on there, and just kind of
him and Peter bonding more because he was like, yeah,
an element of the first game, right, but just very
minimally like it was really he was I don't even
know if he was like had a model in game, right,
Like he was just on like those weather stations or
like random flash or something.
Speaker 3: Not until the end because he has like his body
uh like wrapped in the like a symbiote thing for
like healing at the ends, like the end credit post.
Speaker 2: I think of the first game.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, right right right yeah yeah, so yeah,
I feel like the I'm maybe a little arter one
with like the Mile Like I guess the Miles Store
is more like Slice of Life so far, Like it's
really just like him and his friends, yeah, vibing out,
and it's a lot more like school related things, whereas
Peter's more like just doing the big superhero stuff and
there's more of like that plot around Harry's Lab, which
is a fuck I love that building. Like the design
of Harry's Lab is such a cool place his cruiser around,
seeing all the different experiments people are doing there. But yeah,
it's it's uh, it's it's it's really good. I like
the mission pretty early on with Peter and Harry when
they're like it's like a flashback to them in high
school and they're like sneaking through the high school doing
all this fun stuff. It just feels like it feels
like the in the first game when you have a
Miles or MJ missions, but like just more engaging. These
ones are because you actually like have powers and can
still move around and stuff and fun ways. So yeah,
it feels like they kind of took out some of
those more like slower slower parts, and especially now that
Myles has powers of his own, so if you're playing
as him, you're getting like exhilarating gameplay and all that.
But yeah, I don't know, is that how you felt
early on? Do you remember? Is that roughly where you
were at feeling like, Okay, Peter's got a lot more
going on, like big picture wise, but fun to see
what Miles is up to.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, absolutely, I found like if it I was just
getting really engaged in like the Peter stuff and then
I had to force to do some Miles things, I
would be a little bit upset because it's like, oh, okay,
I'm just taking a break from like the storyline that
I'm hooked on. But I I'm trying to remember because
I of course got super distracted and was doing all
the photos and backpacks and stuff like that. But I
can't remember if I just did that, like do some
of that and then and then a mission, or if
I was just grinding out like all of the stuff
in the certain areas. It's been a couple of years
now since I jumped in there, but I mean, just
you talking about it makes me want to jump back
in and just swing around, because yeah, those man the
like the wingsuit audition with like the like the air
drafts and everything. It's just it's crazy some of the
stuff you can do, like movement wise, and yeah, they
definitely upgraded that from the first game. But no, I
remember really really enjoying the story with Harry and all
that on my first go around. Yeah, but there's definitely
some mild stuff brewing, so it's not like it's all
slice of life for him, so you can look forward
for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I like too, Like I feel like the
first game had obviously I had a bunch of suits,
really unique ones, but I think the it's new right
that they have like the palette swaps for each of
the suits. Now, yeah, it's like four variations. So I
like that obviously in terms of the customization, that's fun.
Enemy types, like I feel like so far. That's another
thing too, because the combat, like it can get a
little bit stale now that we're like at the trilogy
of a game, and it's you know, it is fun,
but it does get a little bit same. At least
that's the way I do it. I just kind of
fall into my old tricks. There's so many things on
the skill tree though, to like mix it up and
use different strategies and whatnot. But I think they've done
a good job with the enemy types, like all the
sand sand enemies. I like fighting those guys, and they're
just kind of all over the place, and that whole
Sandman sequence right at the start of the game is
really really fun, and I like that. It like feels
like it actually takes the city like weeks to unravel
from that because there's still like just sand everywhere. Certain
parts of the city are still just covered in sand,
like they're just still recovering from this. And then you
have like the robot dog things you got, like the
flying robots as well the little bird ones. So yeah,
I feel like there's a even more enemy variety than
there there was before. At least it feels that way
as someone who hasn't jumped back in since I guess
Miles in twenty twenty, so it's been a few years
for me here and then yeah. I think the other
thing too, is I kind of forget how much I
really enjoyed the stealthy missions in this first Spider Man game,
right of just like kind of going around the outside
of the map in a very ghostestu streamer way of like, Okay,
I'm gonna pick off the guys that are kind of
not being seen by anyone else. Maybe make a distraction
over here to take this guy out. And now you
can like make the webline like across two surfaces to
like make an extra spot for you to go and
sneak up and like pull a guy up and knock
them out. So yeah, I think I forgot how much
I enjoyed those sequences. But yeah, some of them are
pretty tough, Like they'll just throw like thirty enemies at you.
And it's if you don't do a ton of stealthy
in first before you get into like the huge action,
It's like it's freaking hard to deal with that stuff.
There's like six guys shooting rock launches at you, guys
with ars over here, and then people charge you shields
and whatnot. It's I'm a little bit rusty, for sure,
But yeah, Sober I have a really good good time
with it, even though I'm not not super deep in
obviously nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good game to just pluck away here
and there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I definitely wanted to. I want to
put it to bed before Wolverine comes out, now that
there's any continuity finishing there, but just in terms of
catching up on the Insomniac stuff, so I have plenty
of time. I don't know, it's like what twenty hour
game for the main story or something like that.
Speaker 3: Uh, it's a little bit longer than the first game
I remember, but I think it's less than twenty I
don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I don't know. I've been screwing around a
little bit. So yeah, I probably probably a little bit
behind the curve in terms in terms of just messing
around little too much. Just looking at the details again,
hanging on the suburbs a lot, just looking at stuff,
you know, I do now that I'm like doing these
this YouTube channel, I'm just like looking at things more
in games, and I'm just going around these suburbs, looking
at these houses, looking at the cause. One thing I
love about the First Spider Man was that like tech
they added where there's like kind of an image inside
of all the apartment building windows, so it like looks
like there is a room inside there, you know, and
if you go up close, it's just like a two
D image, but from afar it looks really good, and
they've made those like even better in this game where
they actually are like a three D environment in there.
There's still a lot of like tricking the eye with
like two D images and stuff. But I'm just going
up to buildings and there's like a you know, an
office that looks like a therapist office or something. There's
someone working at the desk, and there's a guy sitting
in the waiting waiting room chair, and then if you
look too closely, it's like, oh yeah, right above that
office there's the exact same office with the exact same
guy in the exact same clothes. And it's like it
takes you o to the illusion a little bit because
it's you know, you're not really supposed to look at that.
You're supposed to just kind of have it in your
peripheral vision or whatever. But I'm having a grand old
time just being like, wait, the scale of this room
doesn't make sense for the size of this building, and
just uh yeah, just a very There's so much to
observe in this game, and so I'm just having fun
just kind of being part of the city and just
cruising around. And yeah, like I said, not really mainlining
it in any in any sense, because obviously I don't
got to review it. I you know, I'm already two
years late on the conversation, so I might as well
just kind of go at my own pace, right, So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely that's what you should play games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: I mean it took me fucking what nine years to
finally beat Ella Ring.
Speaker 2: Hey, however long it's been, but you've done it, and
that's impressive.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Two other games all quickly showed up. I actually
played these a little bit of go, but I haven't
haven't brought them up on the podcast yet. First is
a game called word Factory, which is one that I
had on my wish list for absolutely ever and then
we think it was like Over the Winter the Steam
Winter Sail. It's word Factory with an eye at the
end instead of instead of a Y if you're if
you're googling it, I had on my wishless forever. It
went like really really cheap over the Winter Sale. I
decided to finally pick it up. It's a very cute
little puzzle game about making taking letters and kind of
fabricating them, making little machines, making little engines. Almost it
very much like the screen is a very much like
a little blueprint or like a little scratch pad kind
of set up to it. Like it's not like meant
to be some big immersive world or whatever. But it
starts out very simple, Like you have like the letter I,
and then you shoot out that letter I into like
another device that will take the eye and kind of
like squish it and turn it into a C. Or
or you'll you know, put the eye up into a
device that like rotates it, so now it's an eye
on its side. It's like a side sideways line. And
then you can take like that C and that sideways
line you combine it and you'll get like different letters
and things like that. You could take the C, flip
it around and now you have like a P essentially.
Or if you get two of those c's and you
combine them together with an I, now you'll make like
a B. And then you can shoot those off into
make make like the whatever word you're being given at
that point in time, and then you know, just a
little improved's on top of that other little funny machines combining.
Now you can combine two elements, three elements, four elements
at a time. And then eventually it gets to the point,
like the first few levels, it's not a whole lot
of machines going on there. You still have a ton
of your screen blank. But even like as far as
I've gotten into it, which is not too far, you're
just having huge a screen full of machines going everywhere.
And then it's fun, like it's really easy if you
just kind of screw up or something. It's really easy
to just reset, reset up a line, move something over here,
put something else down. Like it's not like a frustrating
game in that way. It's just like a fun trial
error type thing. And I'm sure it can get a
little more intense in some of the harder levels or
something where you have like limited space and other challenges.
I think there's like a lot of custom content too,
whether that's like through mod support or just like in
game tools. I wasn't exactly sure, but I don't know.
It seems like a game that I think it has
like a weekly challenge or a daily challenge or something too.
So I don't know. It seems like there's a lot
going on for what is like otherwise like a pretty
simple concept. It almost feels like an iOS game or
something like. It is nice to have the space and
play on like an actual screen. But yeah, if anyone's
looking for like a cute little puzz game, that was like,
I think like five bucks when I picked it up
on Steam. Checkout the word Factory. Pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's really interesting concept. I feel like there's
not enough word games out there. My mind always goes
back to the good ole all the right type.
Speaker 2: Did you ever play like type? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was so bad at I'm still really bad.
I don't like spend how much time on a computer
game right now programming. I am so bad at typing.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I I feel that sometimes I'm
like typing things.
Speaker 3: I'm like I should I should be really good at this,
but like it really should be just a second language.
Speaker 1: I still do at this point with my hands and
like where they tell you in all the right type
of put yeah, no, that's that's fright, like I do
usually my right hand is like I'm just yeah, it's
it's w A s D. You know, that's where my
hands go exactly. I got the I got the game,
Rockey down. Yeah, otherwise I'm a hot mess. Thankfully, none
of that matters for Word Factory. It's a different kind
of word game. Yeah, it's funny word. I feel like
word games have been making a bit of a comeback.
I've seen a lot of them recently, just with the
Bilottro couple of years ago, and now every developer making
like a Blottro rip off, like that concept, but with
other things there's one so many like like scrabble Blotro games,
other word Blotroe type things. So yeah, I've seen seen
a lot of word games recently, so, but this one's
definitely distinct from those those kind of things. This isn't
like a roguelike or anything. It's just a linear puzzle game.
And then the last game I wanted to shout out
again not when I'm super duper farign that's pol Just
for the broken record here, I haven't rolled credits on
any of these, but Kirkland I I picked up and
have been playing a little bit of a Divinity original sin.
I don't know, I don't know what it was about
the Larians. Yeah, yeah, that's that's Larian's series that they
were working on before they did bulders Gate three, so
they need Original Sin. Then they did Original Sin two,
which is I hear. I still even to this day
hear a lot of people who have played all these
games say that, like Divinity, Original Sin too is like
even better than bulgers Gate three. It's just like an
amazing game. Yeah, which is kind of surprising because balders
Kate three is like one of the best games ever.
It's like, you know, critically, I don't know a single
person who doesn't like it. I love it personally, so
so much replayability and stuff in there. But yeah, somehow
they maybe even did a little bit better before. But
I felt, well, there was two reasons. One is this
was a lot cheaper the first one. It was like
six dollars or something, and I felt like I maybe
wanted to build up to it, maybe experience a little
bit more of the world. I don't know. I'm sure
you could just jump in the second one and it's
fine in terms of like the story and just picking
up wherever it is, but yeah, I kind of wanted
to just go back and see what this is, and
this is like a remastered version or enhanced version or
something like that, so it doesn't feel like old and janky.
I guess the main it really plays a lot like Buldersgate.
It feels different in the sense that I played Bauldersgate
on console and I'm playing this on PC, and so
obviously the controls and layout of a ballders Gate type
game is feels like much better for a PC type
game and interface in general, so it just feels like
better in that way. But otherwise it's kind of funny,
like how similar this feels balders Gate three, because I
just felt like it kind of came out of nowhere
and like they didn't work on bulders Gate two or whatever.
You know, it was like Larry just him on nowhere
to make this game, which now they're like one of
the biggest developers in the world, and in terms of
like fan I guess, prestision all that kind of stuff.
But yeah, it's like they really had this formula down
for years and years, because this plays and feels like
a whole heck of a lot like Balder's Gate. You know,
they definitely have honed a lot of things. Things feel
a lot better, and balders get a lot more. Things
feel quite intuitive, but also a lot of things don't
at sometimes because if you don't have like that super
deep knowledge of D and D, like you're already kind
of a little bit behind the curve when you jump
into a game like that. But I really like the
initial setup of this game, Like you have like kind
of a little tutorial area, a couple of little encounters,
and then you get dropped into a town and there's
kind of like a mystery in this town, and so
it's really fun just kind of going building to building
one it introduces you to the town, but also you're
trying to unravel the mystery, like, oh, this guy seemed
a little bit suss maybe, like later in the day,
I'm gonna come back and like break into his house
and like see if I can find any clues here
or go to the graveyard. Got to dig up this grave.
Then oh that's a dead sheep. That's not a human body.
What the fuck happened here? Well, I'm trying to find
this guy, but he's not even here. So early on,
like the the little mystery novel kind of vibe of
it is is hitting right, So I like the kind
of the start of the game. Yeah, and like combat
and all that stuff feels very similar to Baller's Gate.
The character creation feels, you know, like a light version
of what Balersgate three was. It's a little more simplified.
The only thing that I find kind of weird is
like your characters will have You have two characters in
this game. I don't know if it grows beyond that,
but you get too at the beginning and you create
both of them, and if they like feel differently about
you know, obviously you're the character picking their choices, but
like let's say, you know, it's like the classic like oh,
violence or peace route, and one of my characters, I'm like, Okay,
this guy's more like violence, the other one's more like peace.
And so sometimes they're like bicker and you can kind
of pick the dialogue options, but then they'll do like
this really weird like simulated rock paper scissors thing to
like determine who like wins the argument and like you know,
the gig you and you end up going with that
person's and that outcome, and it just it feels very weird,
like it's not extremely immersive it's a little bit janky,
so we'll see. I think I like was even reading
and seeing on like the the I think it's like
on the the mod page for it is just like
so many mods like remove that, people like, yeah, this
thing is stupid, Like we just want to remove this
from the game. Uh this is this is not very enjoyable.
So that's like the only conso far. But otherwise, really
like the world, really like the characters, the setup, and
in terms of like that classic you know, it's not
D and D branded, it's not the same names for spells,
but it's the same idea and rolling dice and all
that kind of fun stuff, and uh yeah, it's it's
really fun to go back to a little bit more
of the roots of Larrying. I mean, I think their
roots are much deeper than this. This is kind of
more when they found their found their groove a little bit.
But uh yeah, I would recommend it as as obviously
you're a fan of bulders Gate three, I think you'd
like this as well, So yeah, put it on the
put it on the on the radar. It's it's a
fun time to go back to this.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The seconde's been on my radar for a long time.
I had a friend like years ago, like I feel
like early early stages of the podcast era. He was
telling me about that game, and it just looked intimidating
to get into, especially at that point, like I had
never even played D and D, so it would have
been a big chomp, you know, to try and swallow
and get down. But I mean, now that I've experienced
baulders Gate played D and D, it definitely would be
on my alley.
Speaker 2: What was that new title that they have coming out
that they just like teased.
Speaker 1: It's just called Divinity.
Speaker 2: I think, right, Okay, yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I don't know what the connection is that
it's dropping the original sin Moniker, but I guess they're
going back to this world and system. So that that
was another reason why I wanted to jump into this,
because I wanted to get a little bit of that
backstory for It's kind of like when a voud came
out last year and I went back and checked out
a little bit of Pillars of Eternity from abstde Age
because set in the same world. So it's nice to
get kind of introduced to that environment with the spells
and characters and the vibe and the tone and all
that stuff is like. But yeah, I mean, even that
Divinity trailer very different vibes so far from what this
game is like. So we'll see how much of it
is change a reboot or if it is kind of
more more of the same going forward. But yeah, it's
it's just cool to see what the studio was up
to years and years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, awesome, Yeah cool.
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hello we are, back Kirklam. Patzer you achieved something which
very Few WELL i love, PEOPLE i, guess but you
should still be proud you beat Elden. Ring.
Speaker 2: Hell, yes it's been a long time to come.
Speaker 3: In, yeah, yeah man it, uh it's been a it's
been a journey for. SURE i feel like my journey
on this specific character was interesting BECAUSE i started like
a long long time, ago took a. BREAK i feel
LIKE i was playing on like a different, character and
THEN i ended up like going back to my og
uh starting starting class character that was just like such
a just a like so inefficient of like stat distribution and. Everything,
LUCKILY i found out that of course you can like
respect to more min max my, character and that really
just progressed my my speed of advancement into into the overall.
Story and THEN i would just hit a, wall you,
know like like certain, bosses and THEN i would just
put the game down for a while and then come
back months, later and, yeah so it was.
Speaker 2: A long long time.
Speaker 3: Coming it's funny you're mentioning you getting through uh like
ten hours Into Spider, man but like spread over to
LIKE i don't, know ten months or. SOMETHING i feel,
LIKE i, LIKE i have no idea when this character actually,
started like what, year but, yeah he's actually The Elden lore,
now which is so. AMAZING i feel just mixed. On
like some of the, BOSSES i feel LIKE i didn't
truly beat them correctly BECAUSE i just like ended up
cheating them or. Something but at the end of the,
DAY i just still felt so good bye bye by
getting that great root or whatever it. WAS i absolutely
love the story of this game so. Much i've been
diving into like so Much, eldinlore like just.
Speaker 2: Videos, yeah, no it's.
Speaker 3: AMAZING i found like a couple of podcasts that kind
of go over certain things like, that because like it
all the info is, there like through like lower description
items and like in game, content but like to just
piece together like actually in order like what this universe
is and just all the significance of like characters interact
with other, characters and the. Betrayals you, know there's always
betrayals in These souls. Games, yeah it totally blows my.
Mind i'm really really curious what the movie is gonna. Be,
like of, course you, know we got The spainster in,
There katie's, fainy So i'm hyped, regardless but also just
like what they're actually gonna do for the for the just,
yeah like who they're gonna, be including for The demi,
gods The imperians and all that. Stuff and, yeah it
definitely boosted my overall enjoyment of the game of just
like diving into that low content because that's just that's
just the way THAT i like to jump into these
types of video, games especially the ones that are like
so rich in like deep world building and lore and
like the world is just so ancient that you're going
through and it's fun kind of in all These souls,
games you're kind of going through a world that's, old,
Right like, yeah like when you go Through lowthern And
Dart souls, one like like it's not, new it's it's like.
Speaker 2: What would you call? It and just like the Defeated
era of The Old Once Once.
Speaker 1: Great it came such a good job of, like, yeah
making it feel like it maybe was once a nice
lived in place that happened thriving world and it almost
feels like. Pops it almost feels, Like, okay there was
this world and then it like went to, shit and
then it came back and then it went to. Again
like it feels like it's it's got that like almost
like the. FUTURE roum, know there's like the city like
just Underneath Old New.
Speaker 3: Yorks, yeah, YEAH i, know one hundred, percent and, uh
multiple times in this game it just like. Blew LIKE
i feel LIKE i did pretty good at not getting
spoiled on kind of what was going to happen with
with certain things LIKE i guess i'll minor spoilers minor
or major spoilers for a really old. Game but just,
uh like like when you get into like the burning
of the Er tree and all that stuff like that
was just like blowing my mind of what was going on.
THERE i didn't really know like why we were doing
stuff like that until of COURSE i went to like
the lore videos later, On but, yeah it was just
so epic when you go to Like Fara miszoula just
such a really cool designed world that's like the floating
city where you fight Like placid Of sacks and like those.
Characters like it's just like so grandiose of, scale it's it's.
Insane and, yeah the first time you step Into, lanedale
like the capital, city like it just totally hits for
kind of what you're expecting because it's like this this
build up right of like this is the capital city
of the Urd. Tree you spend all this time to get,
there and then when you actually step foot and there's
just this like, dead decaying dragon in the middle of the,
city it's just, like what the fuck happened?
Speaker 2: Here this is.
Speaker 3: Insane, yeah the mountaintops of The, giants The Haling, tree
all those. Areas it just felt like a really really
epic journey and one that like you really can't get
that first playthrough experience ever again on like any of
These souls, games of whether it's you're not expecting a
certain boss to appear or something you're like going up
to a big staircase and it's just like dragon flies
down on.
Speaker 2: You you, know like like.
Speaker 3: Like you'll be expecting that on a on a on
a future, playthrough but like the first time that, happens
it's just so epic and it just feels like an
epic movie adventure that you're going through like just multiple.
Times and, YEAH i Just i'm blown, away, Honestly like
like even THOUGH i played plays game years after its,
release it just it just blows my, mind like the
quality of what this game. Is and, uh, YEAH i
know it's it's absolutely. INSANE i do have THE. DLC
i haven't jumped into it. Yet i'm a little bit intimidated.
Speaker 2: Because my friends have been saying it's it is like considerably,
harder especially like pretty much majority of the pauses because you've.
Speaker 3: Dabbled you've, dabbled, Right, YEAH i beat THE, dlc AND
i would agree with oh, nice it.
Speaker 1: Was it was it was ft for sure at certain.
Speaker 3: Times, yeah So I'm i'm GONNA i. HAVEN'T i haven't
braved to jump in. THERE i will, definitely but give.
Speaker 1: Yourself, YEAH i give yourself a bit of a, BREAK i,
think and then then come back to. It.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely what else DO i want to? SAY i, mean,
yeah just really like the the end battle, too uh
with The Elden beast and like The, ratigon uh pairing
really really frustrating boss battle for.
Speaker 2: Myself, uh just just.
Speaker 1: The beast Or.
Speaker 3: Ratigon Like ratagon was like pretty, simple like ONCE i
kind of figured him. Out but it's just like the
process of LIKE i get pretty close on The Elden
beast and then knowing THAT i have to go through
like the like the two different phases of the battle
of like Beating ratagon again and then of Course i'm
like rushing at that point. Too i'm, like, Oh i'll
just quickly go through, it and THEN i end up
dying to, him and then it's like what AM i doing?
Here that's when you just put the controller, down come
back after a, day you, know maybe go have a.
Speaker 2: Snack you're getting a little bit too.
Speaker 1: Heated you can Use torrent now in The Eldenbast, boss, right?
Speaker 2: Yes could you? Not originally that's, Insane.
Speaker 1: So you had to just fuck truck when you would
like fly.
Speaker 2: Away that's crazy to, me like like Across.
Speaker 1: I'm An eldenbast, hater BUT i may be part of
that is BECAUSE i couldn't use torrent and it was
just a no and.
Speaker 2: Long, YEAH i definitely Used.
Speaker 3: TORRENT i didn't know that you could use torrent for
a lot of the boss battles early, on like WHEN
i first Fought. Radawn yeah at wal The Whaling, Sands
he's so far, away AND i didn't know that you
could use, torrents so like all like thirty of my
attempts on that first go, Around i'm just running at.
It so, yeah totally changes the game when you can
actually Use. Torrent and, Man torrent.
Speaker 2: BEST i remember you asked me this a long time.
Ago absolutely best video game horse.
Speaker 3: Ever it is just so fluid to use using him
In columbat, again the double, jumps like running at enemies
and then like jumping off of him into like an aerial.
Speaker 2: Attack it's just, yeah he is a weapon that you
use as well as just traversing the.
Speaker 3: Universe and, yeah, man like it's, oh it's just such
an amazing. Game AND i can't BELIEVE i slept on
it for. Something, WELL i was really sleeping on. It
it's just MAYBE i was too. INTIMIDATE i couldn't really
get through some of those roadblocks on my first. Venture but,
YEAH i loved all the. Facts LIKE i JUST i
can't say enough about this.
Speaker 2: Game it's.
Speaker 3: Definitely you, know one day we'll redo our top ten video.
Games it's absolutely cemented on. THERE i would SAY i
probably even top. Five, Honestly i'm pretty hyped on it
right now and it's pretty, recent but, yeah it's it's
it's pretty really just amazing what they're able to do
with the story and uh, yeah, no all all the
different endings and.
Speaker 1: WHAT i think you Beat travis to beating this. Game,
really he's not beat that.
Speaker 2: GAME i don't think.
Speaker 1: SO i think you, Can.
Speaker 3: OKAY i thought he did beat the main, game just
not THE, dlc so all these years that he's just been,
BUGGING i.
Speaker 1: Think he's really, close but he hasn't quite done.
Speaker 3: IT i THINK i think it'd be tough to jump back,
in like if he's taking a long.
Speaker 2: BREAK i, Mean i'm, Sure i'm sure he can do.
Speaker 3: It he's a he's a determined man that, yeah sets
his mind to.
Speaker 2: It i'm sure you can do.
Speaker 1: It but he beats games. Quick he's a when he's
when he wants. To he's a gamer. Man he's, yeah
did you go to The Hallick tree?
Speaker 2: AREA i? Did? Yes, absolutely, Okay and have you beat that?
AREA i have?
Speaker 1: Yes, like ok what's your opinion On. Millennia, yeah, yeah
so was boss fight.
Speaker 3: Well and like she it's interesting playing the game now
and like hearing comparisons to like the first version of the,
game because like it just sounds like a completely different,
game especially like balancing of some of these these enemy,
types BECAUSE i have heard like comparisons of that early
patch Of millennia and it was absolutely. Insane, uh definitely
one of the hardest Bosses i've ever played in any
video game, ever even on like the more nerve. Version
that was one THAT i LIKE i just put down
for a while and and went.
Speaker 2: AROUND i ended up.
Speaker 3: Kind of doing some research on like how to how
to do a little bit better with that. BATTLE i
ended up like respecting my character a little bit to
try and use something that was a little bit.
Speaker 1: More definitely looked how CAN i choose this boss? FIGHT
i want to put this to.
Speaker 3: Bed, Yeah and that was something else too on my
journey throughout this game is like really understanding more of
like how to play these souls, games and like the
importance of like weapon greases for, example or like affinity
types and stuff like. That like like that is that
is present in Every soul's, game even The souls like,
titles but this one really opened my eyes to that and, Specifically,
man you you know we are gonna talk about the.
Bosses i'm kind of talking about some of the bosses.
Now but do you remember The Godskin Duo Bought?
Speaker 2: Battle?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah that like actually is some of the biggest bullshit.
Ever and that was WHEN i had TO i had to.
Google Like i'm, like this is actually. Impossible, yeah but
like understanding like the importance of like sleep pots and
stuff like, that and like actually just completely changing the
difficulty of certain boss battles or encounters or stuff like. That.
Yeah SO i think WHEN i go back and play
Other souls, Titles i'm gonna be just so much better
at them because you, Know i've played through them NOW
i kind of know what to. Expect but also just
like looking for that min max and like actually choosing
the right types for certain enemies the game just really
make it.
Speaker 2: Clear what those what those. Are but, UH i don't.
Speaker 3: KNOW i just feel like because the first TIME i
Played darsel's one and even majority of like This Elder
ring play, through LIKE I i feel LIKE i wasn't
even really like upgrading my weapons properly or like like
like using the smithing stones, correctly and, again like the
game tutorializes it the, most probably in Elden ring compared
to those older, titles but still it's it's not very very,
clear and you don't really realize that if you like
use your stones on a certain, weapon you can't really
get those, backs so you're you're kind of. Committeeing and then,
YEAH i feel like that's WHERE i was kind of
just shoot myself in the foot early.
Speaker 2: On but at the.
Speaker 1: Same, time it's like you have to go to this
specific merchant to like do this, thing and it's LIKE
i just forgot that guy existed BECAUSE i encountered him
thirty hours ago and he didn't get anything useful for
me at the.
Speaker 2: Time, yeah now he's Like clairly.
Speaker 1: The only guy who can do this. Thing it's, like,
oh how WAS i supposed to?
Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, no it's it's weird that they have that
in their.
Speaker 3: Games and even just like the the WHOLE npc, thing how, like,
man if you accidentally swing on AN, npc you can
just fuck yourself for so like so.
Speaker 2: Hard of, course you can like go to the.
Speaker 3: Whether it's like the church of vows where you can
like absolution yourself so to just make it so all
NPCs aren't hostile against you at least like the friendly.
Speaker 2: Ones but if, like if.
Speaker 3: You don't know that early, on you can like screw
yourself so hard and just like hard lock yourself out
of certain like side quests or whatnot if you just
accidentally kill certain. NPCs, YEAH i feel like there's something
ELSE i was gonna, Say but, yeah, no it was
quite the.
Speaker 2: Journey so proud of. Myself oh that's WHAT i was gonna.
SAY i was just like HOW i wasn't really good
at the mind. Vaccine i'm early on my on my.
Speaker 3: JOURNEY i feel like it was almost better because it
kind of just forced myself to just get down to
the basics of like the gameplay of like just understand
the move, set because that's what the enemy.
Speaker 2: Does he's not gonna be doing any like crazy.
Speaker 3: Stuff he has his move, set and if you understand
that and study, that you'll be able to just dance with.
Him AND i feel like that's just like the art
of those. Games and then when you min, max that's
when you like it's probably a lot more relevant in
like The new, game plus like when you get later
on in like the late late game, stuff but still
just you are at an advantage if you are able
to like kind of look for those affinity advantages and.
Disadvantages and also just like the importance of, Poise LIKE
i feel LIKE i just wasn't really using proper armor or.
Whatnot and THEN i realized that IF i get to
like a certain poise, threshold you can just tank certain.
Attacks there's just one ash of WAR i had for
a long portion of the, game AND i think it
was just Called endure or. Something it just like increases
your poise to the point that you can actually just
face tank like any, attack like it doesn't matter if
it's like like a giant just swings at.
Speaker 2: You like it's kind of.
Speaker 3: Crazy but and, again LIKE i would win battles with.
That i'm, like that's kind of. DIRTY i feel LIKE
i feel LIKE i.
Speaker 2: Won that pretty pretty.
Speaker 3: Dirty but at the same, Time i'm so proud of
my self forgetting to that. Point and, yeah, no it's.
Amazing HIGHLY i recommend the game to absolutely.
Speaker 1: Everybody what was your main weapon that the end of The, yeah,
so LIKE i, SAID i kind of messed around with some.
Speaker 2: Things.
Speaker 3: Uh FOR i was like messed around with some magic
here and, There SO i was USING i think it
was The Carrion Great sword or.
Speaker 2: Something.
Speaker 3: Uh it's like base. Attack you would charge your your
ash of war and it would do this like really
really large magic like great swords swing and you can
charge up to three times and it like it was
crazy if you have really high. Intelligence and then of
Course i'd pair that with like Carrying, slicer which is
a really really powerful. Sorcery it you just like swing
a sword like with your wand and but there's like
no cool down so you can like chain it really.
Well and again if you have high. Intelligence kind of.
CRAZY i was using The Moonlight katana.
Speaker 2: For a while. Too that's, right super. Good, yeah, yeah
it's it's like an intelligence dexterity. Weapon what what DID
i beat the? Game? OH i ended up using.
Speaker 3: The sort of night And, flame really really cool. Weapon
you it basically scales off faith and, intelligence so you're.
Speaker 1: Kind of like a mid like a mid small range
sword kind of. Guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, YEAH i wasn't really a megabunk on this specific,
character BUT i respect that place. Style, nonetheless there's nothing
better than just one weapon, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah AND i just want to running jump attacks and
just get like huge damage and then probably get hit for. It.
Speaker 3: Yeah and one thing that's just amazing about specifically L
ring is like the unique design of their weapons and
and the armors and and all those things that just
LIKE i almost had like just just just overload of like,
options BECAUSE i WOULD i want kind of just want
to dabble with all the different weapons THAT i would
get my hands. On but of course in these types of,
game you're kind of just committing to your specific play.
Style it is nice that they added the option to
respect in this. Game it is limited to because you
trade in like A larval tier To ranala and that's
how you can respect your. Character AND i think you
only get like a certain amount on a specific, playthrough but,
still LIKE i THINK i did it like two or three,
times but that's more you can do in Other Dark souls,
games at least to my, Knowledge so that's kind of
cool that they added. That but, yeah, no those were
kind of the main. ONES i was using the zwyhander
like super early. On that was that's just like a
colossal sword THAT i do remember that one from the
First Dark souls.
Speaker 2: Game, okay, okay, yeah just a big ass sword.
Speaker 3: Yea that, yeah really really good, weapon especially if you
WOULD i think you would use like a war cry
ash of war at.
Speaker 2: Least that's WHAT i was. Running and then again it
would like increase.
Speaker 3: Your poise and you just just like really really heavy
swing down which just destroy. Enemy at least early on
again that was like early, GAME i was using. That but,
yeah really really cool weapons in this. Game and, yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you do you be? Pairing?
Speaker 2: Hell, no, Man i'm not that good at this? Game
are you kidding?
Speaker 3: Me And Dark soul's, ONE i like tried to to
kind of LIKE i, WAS i was playing like a
cleric type character and SO i was using a shield a,
lot AND i was kind of trying to get better
at the.
Speaker 2: Pairing but it's so. DIFFICULT i don't understand how people
can do it like super.
Speaker 3: Consistently when you see like Speed runners and went, on
they just they just do it perfectly every, time or
you see those videos people just like one Shotting gwin
like The Final boss And Dark souls because they just pay.
Him Uh, NO i don't know IF i paied once
honestly in my entire player through Like i'm just not
that not.
Speaker 2: That accurate with.
Speaker 3: That i'm pretty proud of my roles accuracy, okay but
not necessarily my.
Speaker 1: Pairing, Yeah i'm a big roller for, sure Anti perry for.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: Cool that's that's good. Again congratulations, There and how would
we just roll that into our our last, topic which
is just kind of a short and SWEET i suppose
ranking of of our favorite and or least Favorite soul's
Game Boss Boss. Fights so this isn't like a definitive,
list and, HONESTLY i THINK i would need to really
go through. It and you, know IF i was doing
a full on, RANKING i just kind of picked a
handful THAT i, like a handful THAT i. Dislike and,
YEAH i mean kind of including any any of These
souls games games we've. PLAYED i mentioned to, YOU i
feel free to throw some neo in, there you, know
any any game that's kind of like in this genre.
Space i'm curious to see if you have any picks from.
There let me let me where SHOULD i. Start i'm
gonna start With i'll start with one From Dark souls.
One how about go back not to the, beginning because
that's of Course Steven, souls WHICH i haven't played a
bit of BUT i didn't have a pick from that.
Game i'm gonna go with the Chaos witch Quay log,
CLOG i don't.
Speaker 3: Know Quay, lag, yeah something like, that which you know
is is of course like the boss at the end
of one of the most annoying sections in that.
Speaker 1: Game so that's like part of part of the factor
there is that it's in Like bile or what's it Called. Blaketown,
uh you have to go all the way Down blaketown
before you get to Chaos Witch quag which is just
like a hybrid human Spider Lava Lava demon pos really
really great boss, fight THOUGH i, think you, know part
of it is like that annoying as journey to get.
There BUT i JUST i love the setting of that boss.
FIGHT i think the mechanics are really. Fun they're really
cool looking boss. Uh AND i think that's one of
like isn't that like one of the four like crucial
bosses you got to kill to like whatever story is?
Speaker 3: There you gotta you gotta kill her to get to
the like the main, city like like you get that's
where the bell is that you?
Speaker 2: Ring?
Speaker 1: Right the? Bells, yes that's what it, is so that
WAS i think maybe my that maybe maybe is my
favorite one From Dark Soul's one. GAME i have not
rolled credits on to be, fair so like the second
half of THE, Dlc i'm not not factoring in those
those characters in the. Mix BUT i think that's probably
my favorite of the. ONES i, mean you, know the
early ones are, classic like you, know the Freaking Torrent,
demon whatever the heck is, called, uh the, gargoyles fun
fights and all of, that BUT i think definitely shout
out to that one as being one of the, big
grandiose things for. ME i THINK i think for me
LIKE i do like the Big beast. ONES i love
a good dual type, fight like against the boss that's
like around your same. Size BUT i think for, me
it's like a big part of it is like the.
Intro it's the. Atmosphere it's like the, vibes like that
intro cinematic for certain. CHARACTERS i can't remember what hers is,
necessarily BUT i just WHEN i think Of Dark Souls one,
bosses it's like probably one of the first that comes to,
mind AND i think that's a good sign for what
is ultimately one of my favorites from that.
Speaker 2: Game, yeah, NO i would completely agree with that.
Speaker 3: PICK i Had quayleg on my on my list as,
well one of the, best like like tracks too for
a boss. Fight, honestly in like all The souls. Games for,
me it it's so, epic AND i swear that they
like reuse some elements of it in some of the
Elder ring like side boss, battles BECAUSE i just remember hearing.
Speaker 2: Like that chant in the.
Speaker 3: Background but, yeah really Like Eerie battle, too because of
course it's just like human figure on like a spider's
body shooting.
Speaker 2: Lava it's it's pretty.
Speaker 3: Crazy and then and then afterwards there's like another spider
lady that's That quaile was like defending. Afterwards it's just
a really interesting kind of area of of that, game,
because like you, said you kind of go Through, blaketown
which is just disgusting and horrible and dark and just nightmare.
Speaker 2: Field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Absolutely. UH i just to go back and forth
here so you can, go you, know my favorite favorite
whatever you ever want to, Do i'll.
Speaker 2: Go i'll stick With Dark souls here because we're in this.
Speaker 3: Area i'm gonna go with one of my least favorite
boss battles and in all Of soul's, history and this
has got to be the bed of. Chaos From Dark souls,
one this is basically what The witch, is like what
The witch Of islith is supposed to, be because because
she's trying to like make her own flame or like
a turtle or. Something and, uh it's just so disappointing
because it's like a really, cool interesting character they showcase
from like the very start of the, game and you
don't even actually fight. Them it's just this like giant.
Enemy it's just unsatisfying to. Fight and, yeah really really.
DISAPPOINTED i THINK i was disappointed with like a lower,
aspect but also just like the actual. Gameplay it's just.
Disappointing so, yeah really not a fan of that one at.
Speaker 1: All, YEAH i, Mean i'll you, Know i'll back that
up with my least favorite from The Dark souls one
is Uh Seeth seeth what is the full? Name, seeth The,
scale The. Scaleless, yeah just, stupid just stupid bad game.
Design in my, BIT i ate this pod so. MUCH i,
mean you, know part of this is that you have
to go down like The Crystal Cave palace where yeah
it's called which is one of the worst design video
game Areas i've ever seen my whole. Life and then
you get his bottom and it's A i guess somewhat
cool looking, enemy but just as like the stupidest mechanic
as if you just like step on the ground for
too long in specific, spas you just get turned to
crystal and then you just like die. Instantly AND i,
MEAN i hate that boss so much THAT i quit
the game there AND i still haven't gone. Back and
so is it the hardest? BOSS i don't, know there's
probably some cheese to, it but the fact that it's
like the most annoying platforming sequence into the most annoying,
Boss it's, like this is just. Horrible this is just.
Bad this is bad video gaming right. Here you, know
so much Of Dark souls and these games in general
is like the boss fights are meant to drive you, crazy,
right AND i think they sometimes they just sometimes totally
miss the mark in terms of making things annoying or
making things just too like, random just random and hard in.
Ways that's, LIKE i don't know How i'm supposed to
actually learn how to counter this. ATTACK i feel like
this attack is just designed to it will randomly hit
you or it won't and you just are gonna get
unlucky or. LUCKY i don't like that kind of. THING
i like control and whatever is going on With seeth
in this whole. Area bad thumbs.
Speaker 3: Down, yeah, terrible terrible, character terrible boss. FIGHT i got
another one shout out for Dar souls one for my least.
Favorite and this is a really really early battle and
for some, reason every TIME i play this, game it
just gives me.
Speaker 2: Pain and it's the.
Speaker 3: Combo it's The Tourist demon battle where you fight The
Tourist demon who's a fast enemy dual wheels these, machetes
but he has these two fucking dogs with, him and
it is just such a especially at that stage in the.
Game Like i'm curious IF i play through it, now
IF i still struggle with it now That i'm, like you,
Know i'm The Elder lord And i'm somewhat good at
These souls games now if it still gives me as
the most struggle as it.
Speaker 2: Did but it's just a really tight.
Speaker 3: AREA i remember like the camera being kind of awful
in this area, also and just like the speed and.
Speaker 2: Order that they tack you. In it seems like you
dodge one and you can hit by the other and
then you try and heal. Yourself it's just it's just.
Horrible it's a horrible.
Speaker 3: Fight there's there's not like a super close bonfire to it.
Either oh, YEAH i kind of have to go through some,
enemies so, YEAH i always fucking despise that, battle and
it was one, that like it's early on in the,
game but like still just going up to, It i'd
just be like gritting my, teeth like getting so angry
THAT i have to fight these these tourist.
Speaker 2: Demons but, yeah so shout to that.
Speaker 1: One, uh let me let me actually blast through my
other least favorites because they're all kind of in the
same realm of things and THAT i can be more positive.
Afterwards SO i, MEAN i shout out to The Eldin.
BEAST i, MEAN i think in, GENERAL i kind of
feel like The soul's games kind of missed the mark
with the final boss a lot of the. Time that's
generally an OPINION i, THINK i, HOLD i would have
to go back through the history books and see if
that sounds. True but, Yeah, ELDENBEAST i mean, Again i'm
sure it's better now that you could use torrent in,
there but you could not WHEN i play the game,
then so that was annoying to. Tell the other two
quick shows from Elden ring for me Is millennia and
then the final. Boss uh MAYBE i won't say their
name for spoiler reasons for, You Kirkland Final boss of
THE dlc of Elden, ring Elden, Ring what the hell
is it? Called shadow the Ur?
Speaker 2: Tree shadow The?
Speaker 1: Tree, yeah BECAUSE i, think to, me like two of
the hardest boss Fights i've ever done in any game,
ever but so annoying with random ass attacks and. Stuff
the worst for me is when you spend five or
six hours or something to like finally beat A Dark
soul's boss and you beat it and you don't even
feel good. Afterwards you don't get like you like sometimes
you pop, off you're, cheering you're like oh yeah, yeah
and even if they're an annoying boss And i'm just, like,
yeah you know, what BUT i learned this. Shit i'm
so happy with, Myself but those, ONES i was just,
LIKE i hate video. GAMES a pit Of despair hates.
Games this game, sucks especially with the one in THE
dlc where it's Like, okay this is the final boss
of this, too so to close it out with this,
thing and it's LIKE i could just walk, away and Like,
millennia LIKE i think it's optional right to fight, Her
like you don't need to to beat the, game but you,
know it's kind of like a badge and, matter you
kind of have to do. It BUT i just think they,
like obviously with a, millionaire you got like the water foul,
attack like just the spamming a million. THINGS i know
human beings can parry that or dodge. IT i got
hit by that thing a hundred. TIMES i could never
figure out a way to ever not get it by
outa other than just like they really far away and
hope when she uses, It i'm far enough away that
it can't hit. Me and then when she, does like
her her dive bomb, thing that's. Stupid. Uh and then
the final boss of THE dlc has so much, bullshit
and it just feels like we want to make this
hard for the sake of it being, hard and having
stupid hip boxes and having stupid reaction times and stupid
things that you can't, see and it's just annoying as.
Hell so there's my red. Corner for those two in.
Speaker 3: PARTICULAR i do know about that boss you talk, About
consort For Don, yes, yeah, yeah, OKAY I i found
out about that boss because a huge health pool.
Speaker 1: Too it takes for fucking. Ever. God.
Speaker 3: YEAH i randomly saw this video somebody was doing like
a randomizer, playthrough which is like it just randomizes the
bosses that you, encounter so like The Tree sentinel right
out the gate could be, anyone and The Tree sentel
right out The gate Was consort For.
Speaker 2: Down oh my.
Speaker 3: God and it was just so like it was so
weird to watch BECAUSE i think there was like multiple
of them, too like like like like every enemy.
Speaker 2: Type would be like a. Boss it was just.
Speaker 3: RIDICULOUS i don't know why people do those types of,
challenges BUT i mean people do Like level one no hit,
runs and it just blows my.
Speaker 2: Mind people are, nuts, Man people Are, yeah they truly.
Speaker 3: Are, okay, yeah, Nice i'll shift To ACTUALLY i only
got one From actually not it's a.
Speaker 2: LIE i found a couple more From, neo So i'll
go To.
Speaker 1: Neo.
Speaker 3: Here you're gonna try and google these and they have
like really Long japanese names And i'm probably gonna mispronounce
them SO i, apologize but if you want to look
at them, Up i'll try my best to try and.
Speaker 1: Pronounce you'll try your, best And i'll try my best
to type the. Metal.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah so the first one THAT i have is
probably my favorite boss. Battle in this, one it's a
Very ghost Of tsushima, esque like se. Andy it's really really.
Gorgeous it's in it's in like a moonlight setting with
like tall. Grass really really challenging.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 3: Uh in this, game you fight, demons but then you
also fight humans and you fight them, differently and the
human battles like you can parry, them and you, KNOW
i was actually pairying in this, game Not Nuts souls.
Games it's a little bit easier In. Neo but this
character's name Is Tachibana Muni. Shiga so there you. Go
you can you can look that guy. Up oh, yeah hell,
yeah hell, yeah there you. Go Uh so take a
look at like just like the arena that you're kind
of fighting them. In, uh this is actually like a side,
quest it's not even like a main like a fist
he kind of.
Speaker 2: Does, yeah he kind of.
Speaker 3: Does he there's like a cut scene that he kind
of has.
Speaker 2: Like a dufist thing going. ON i think he's like
possessed and he kind of just acting. Weird but this
boss battle to me like broke.
Speaker 3: Me and THEN i like would play the game and
Then i'd go back and again it's like an optional side,
quest AND i would try it now That i'm like
a stronger, level AND i would still just get absolutely.
Destroyed he is like to infinite like stamina, recovery and
it would just be like so. Fast so it's like
unfair because he's a human like. You so he kind
of plays the exact, same but like his stats are just.
Speaker 2: Insane he's just like crazy lightning. Attack he uses his
bone air.
Speaker 3: Like it's just, insane and especially if you fight him
LIKE i don't know act.
Speaker 2: Two or something, like it's not super super deep in the.
Speaker 3: GAME i feel like he just he just it's like
a market type situation in The Elder, ring like like
a character is thrown at you to just humble you
and just make you realize that it's like this guy
is something. Else, Yeah so so that's like the main
one THAT i think of WHEN i think of that,
Game and the other one THAT i would shout out
Is The Great. Centipede e's a one to, type but
just just an annoying type of like it's not, hard
but it's just annoying because it's a really big boss
that you can have for, sure but it's one that
you're kind of like you have like a run away from.
Speaker 2: Him and then you get an opportunity to, attack so
you're just.
Speaker 3: Kind of like waiting and it's not really like a
fun boss battle in that. Sense so that one really frustrated.
Me Uh the first ONE i mentioned was like a
love hate situation BECAUSE I i love like replaying that
battle AFTER i beat it because my character is just
stronger AND i can like parry the guy and just
absolutely destroy.
Speaker 2: Him but the love hate.
Speaker 3: Relationship and then the last ONE i would mention on
here is he no. Enma so there you. Go H
i N o dash e n M.
Speaker 2: A it's kind of this LIKE i don't even know
Like harpie.
Speaker 1: CHECK i literally got jump scared by their search for.
Speaker 2: This it's a very frustrating boss.
Speaker 3: Battle, yeah she has this like one attack that it's
kind of just, bullshit like you can't dodge it at.
All Uh, so like the first time and it like
instant kills, you so like the first time you play,
her you don't know what's, coming and it happens so,
fast you like literally just get one shot and it's,
like oh, okay. Cool, yeah there's no counterplay to, that
but one THAT i was very satisfied WHEN i beat,
her like LIKE i, WAS i was hooting and hollering
for sure on this. One so those are kind of
my shoutouts from that neo. Game really freak shows also
like roster of enemies in.
Speaker 1: There, yeah uh, great let me let's actually jump to
our last ad break and then we'll come back and
talk about more freak. Shows we'll be right. Back, okay
we are, back and, yeah so my next one is
And i'll Do i'll do. Two i'll do a quick
shout out, here and Then i'll go into another more general.
One early on In Dark souls, three which is my
Favorite soul's game for anyone who doesn't remember there, is
there's a boss called The Curse Rotted Great, wood which
is just like a giant cursed tree that you, know
just like, drop you, know since it's a big ass,
tree like you can't really see the top of, it
and sometimes it'll like shake and like things will fall
off the tree and like smack, you AND i think
it like summons a lot of. Things it's not necessarily the,
best uh you know boss fight in terms of like
just the, design and it's it's very much not the classic.
Style it's like one of the big weird boss fights
or it's more like dodging attacks and it is like
really tight little combat, SEQUENCES i, guess BUT i always
just loved how strange the design was for this. Creature for,
me you, know as someone who like that was the
First souls game THAT i really was dedicated. To it
was a big skill check early on for, Me, like,
REALLY i really struggled with this boss, fight even though
it's probably, like you, know really easy in the grand
scheme of. Things BUT i was really bad at these
games WHEN i was first get into, them AS i
probably should. Be so showed us to the freak show
that is that one and then just a general shouted,
OUT i think more specifically for Elden, ring but also
just across these games in, general is like dragon boss.
Fights you, know some of them aren't super, good some
of them missed the mark for, sure BUT i think
in GENERAL i really enjoy THEM i think In Elder
ring sometimes they utilize a bit too much of like
you have to fight the exact same one over and over.
Again especially in THE dlc they do that a bit too, much,
Unfortunately but in, GENERAL i really like the, scale like the.
Fighting you, know dragons are such a classic fantasy, thing
but very rarely does it feel good to fight a
dragon in a. Game it just it JUST i can't
think of many that are iconic and, fun LIKE i Love.
Skyrim is it fun to fight the dragons in the.
Game actually, Not it's like it's awful. Gameplay it's annoying to.
Sell BUT i think they've always done a good job
of that in this whether that's like classic slashing at the,
tail slashing at the, ankles getting up there in the,
face which is riskier but deals more, damage maybe chopping off,
limbs something you can chop off the tails and stuff
like that and, uh extremely. Satisfying i'm Sure Monster hunter
is great at, that but uh, Yeah i've always kind
of enjoyed those that kind of genre of, fight and
some of them are, huge some of them are more you,
know you can actually see them in one camera. Shot but,
yeah JUST i guess a general shout it To Eldon,
ring and they're just greater souls like. Dragons.
Speaker 3: Man the first TIME i Saw, GRAIL i, think is
what the name is that giant dragon like the mother
of all dragons And klid or the dragon wherever it
is in that area WHEN i like saw that, dragon
LIKE i THOUGHT i saw big dragons UNTIL i saw that,
thing and LIKE i thought it was just a mountain
and then it started moving, though like holy fuck, man
like they like that's, insane but even Like blacida sacks
you fight later, on really really, cool just freak show dragon,
designs and, yeah like you, said they kind of just
have them.
Speaker 2: In all these souls.
Speaker 3: GAMES i never really Played, bloodborne SO i don't know
if they're really relevant, there but, yeah they they like
their dragons and they're usually like heavy lower implications to the,
dragons WHICH i like to.
Speaker 2: Eat up of.
Speaker 1: Course yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Go, ahead yeah so what uh, Yeah i'll stay in
the Elden ring vein here.
Speaker 2: For some. COMPLAINTS i already mentioned The godskin.
Speaker 3: Duo that's like a top tenor for like least favorite
interactions in a video. Game, ever like that that almost broke.
Me that was not good at. ALL i also hated
the valiant gargoyles that you fight in it's in like
the underworld area like THE i think it's.
Speaker 2: In The Shilfa shiofra river kind of.
Speaker 3: Area just annoying too really fast strong enemies that you
fight the same. Time happens in all These souls. Games
you to fight like two types of, gargles it, seems
and they're always. Frustrating those ones gave me a tough
challenge for.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah where do you stand on like the boss
fights that are kind of like either either two enemies
or like a whole crowd of them and you have
to like hunt down like a specific. One.
Speaker 3: Yeah, UH i mostly don't like them because they're just.
Speaker 2: Challenging, YEAH i don't.
Speaker 3: KNOW i feel, like, YEAH i feel Like i'm also
just not really strong with, them so they just bring
more frustrations than. Anything SOMETIMES i get, lucky and LIKE
i just happen to get lucky where like one is
kind of separated from the other ones and THEN i
can kind of just focus on one of. Them but
unlike other boss, FIGHTS i. CAN'T i feel LIKE i
can't really like approach it the same way like sometimes
you approach the boss fight and you can like dance with,
them like you just know all the, moves you know
what's gonna.
Speaker 2: Happen for like the double.
Speaker 3: Ones it's a little bit inconsistent that way because you're
trying to like read their, patterns but then you're the
other one's coming in and you're peripheral and like you
just panic rolling at that. Point so, YEAH i would
say for the most, PART i don't really enjoy. Them
but with that being, said one of my favorite boss battles,
ever which is it's not even a good fight like at,
all like with The, sequenccene but is The ranala fight
like at The Ray ray Raya lucaria area that was
one of my favorite just sections of the game to go,
through very Like Harry potter feeling the first time that
you like come to the river and you just see
like the castle over like the, fog really really cool,
designs and then just like the freaky nature of that
boss batt and you go in there just these dolls
that are like basically biting at your. Ankles and then
in the second stage when you Fight ranala of like
the full moon and it's just like the water background
like just really cool, again amazing, soundtracks. Phenomenal so, yeah.
Speaker 1: Creepy burger king enemies that are in.
Speaker 2: There, yeah the sleep King ye're not sleep, king sneak.
Speaker 1: King. Yeah. Uh let me quickly rifle off three elder
ring ones and then my last ones are just my
top favorite From Thar souls. Three, again my favorite of
the Series Rei, card not necessarily for the mechanics of,
this BUT i just love the intro cinematic and the
weird design of that. Character yeah for. Sure, yeah so
big shout outs To. Reycard in THE, dlc there Is
mesmer The, impaler who is one that frustrated me to no,
end and he's such a dweeby annoying character and he
was he's got all my freaking. Nerves but, MAN i
felt so good WHEN i finally killed that fucking. DEWEVE
i was so so happy WHEN i finally took him.
Out it took me a. While it was a really hard,
fight one of the harder fights for me in THE,
dlc but a really fun learning curve to. It just
like a really interesting dance OF i feel like the
range she, has like really big range at, times and
so trying to stay like right on the edge of
that Obs i'm not parying his, attacks SO i gotta
stay right on that. EDGE i found really. Engaging so
show us To mesmer The impaler and then shout out
to earlier game ish boss Is godrick The. GRAFTED i
love the, design just the just literally just an old
king who just has other body parts kind of grafted onto.
HIM i used his weapon for a long, time like
late into the game as, well SO i kind of
always remembering. THAT i love the. Setting of, course it's
like kind of the climactic moment of this huge castle
that you've been in for like hours and. Hours but
it's just a really fun boss, fight very classic kind
Of Dark soul's boss, fight AND i JUST i think
it's excellently. Designed and obviously once you beat it, too
not only DID i get a great, WEAPON i COULDN'T
i can't remember IF i could use the weapon right,
AWAY i probably had to love what my stats a bit.
More but after you get, through that opens up a
huge chunk of the, Game so it's like a really just,
iconic pretty early on moment THAT i will. FEEL i
feel Like i'll always remember From Elder, Ring so, YEAH
i really like that boss fight especially that's.
Speaker 3: Like the first demigod that you encounter in the, game
so there's like a lot of build up to, it
like you're seeing these grafted body parts straight, up but
then to see, him he's just a freak. Show and
then second stage when he rips off The eggan's head and,
YEAH I I i feel LIKE i have that singed
my head of like the soundtrack and him just bear
wetness and he's just like blowing fire at, you and,
yeah especially early on just getting smoked that AND i
think he just shit talks to, you LIKE i, mean
all the bosses shit talk to you and the kill.
Speaker 2: You of, course you, KNOW i Am. Millennia i've heard
that name fucking a million.
Speaker 1: Times, yeah it's like you know why they're sit talking to,
you but you don't really know what they're saying or
what it. Means you know that they're they're.
Speaker 3: Digging oh, yeah. AWESOME i MEAN i didn't have a
WELL i did have on my, list but you already
talked About. Millennia that was one that it was like
a legend like leading.
Speaker 2: Up to, it just heard the, imagery really cool character,
design really interesting lore around.
Speaker 1: Them also probably the most popular character from the game. Overall,
yeah definitely the poster. Child, yeah yeah for.
Speaker 3: Sure, yeah so big lead up and it was very very,
challenging very very, hard and, yeah just maybe want to
maybe want to quit the game multiple.
Speaker 2: Times.
Speaker 3: Uh marget would be a good shout out. Too that
was like just a. HUMBLER i think that's like the
first boss That i've encountered in these games that like
has like delay attacks and oh, yeah and just like
attacking you at different times and like like like understanding
like inputs where like they will actually attack you if
if if you go to like drink your health pot
or something like.
Speaker 2: That so it teaches you a lot kind of early
on in the.
Speaker 3: Game and that was ONE i was just beating my
head at and probably under leveled of course because it's
kind of like the first thing that you kind of come.
Speaker 2: Across so, uh really really good boss. Battle there.
Speaker 3: Also estelle The void whatever it's, called the natural borne
of The, void the giant cosmic centipede. Thing, yeah that
one that one beat the shit out of. Me that
one took so many.
Speaker 2: Tries.
Speaker 3: Uh this is the type of boss battle, though and
there's multiple like This eldon Be east is like this
also where you're just kind of fighting the camera more
than anything at.
Speaker 2: Certain certain, parts like sometimes locking on isn't good because
like you just can't see enough of the enemy one
that like at like AFTER i beat, it LIKE i don't,
know attempt like seventy or whatever the.
Speaker 3: Hell it, WAS i feel LIKE i was really getting
good at, it LIKE i was just dodging it. Consistently
and then you know that feeling when you're, like, OH
i got this, FUCKER i got this, fucker.
Speaker 2: And then you just sprint in the boss. Room you
die like, instantly and you're, like, okay next, TIME i got.
THIS i got, this and.
Speaker 3: Then you get really really close and then you, die
like like it was just like one of those WHERE
i was feeling good even THOUGH i was starting to
really get pumped by that. Character cool, design but, yeah
it was a frustrating battle for.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah how many more do you have on? List uh?
Speaker 3: Two, okay So I'll i'll rail these, OFF i think.
Speaker 1: Quick.
Speaker 3: Yeah one of my favorites in the entire game was
the fight that you do With. Malakith really really challenging
because you have to fight the draconic soldier like before,
him which is really really, challenging.
Speaker 2: But just a really stylistic.
Speaker 3: Fight like just his moves are like so, epic and
when when he just when he just like goes to
his beast, form it's just so epic and one THAT
i felt really really proud of myself WHEN i beat.
It took a lot of, tries BUT i beat it
in like one, sitting which was really good. Feeling, Also and,
yeah just by that point in the game, Too like
it's late game at this, stage SO i feel LIKE
i was also just really vibing with my character and
just just really, LIKE i don't, KNOW i was just
peaking in that, stage so really really happy with with
that boss, fight and just a really cool character To,
malachith and just just the whole interaction between him And,
america and just like the Shadow Bound beasts are so so.
Cool especially like the MORE i dive into The, lord
it's Just i'm.
Speaker 1: Just, like, yeah it looks looks.
Speaker 2: WEIRD i, like, YEAH i GOTTA i gotta know the
ins and.
Speaker 3: Out IT'S i gotta know all the, relationships AND i
Mean i'll be ready for the. Movie i'll be able
to call out all of the fallacies.
Speaker 2: And changing of the of the. Canon oh, yeah.
Speaker 3: Sorry and then my last One Mogue, man really cool,
fight but, man it was so, frustrating especially that second
phase when it just like he's Like undodgeable, attacks same
thing With millennia that he like heals himself when he attacks.
Speaker 2: YOU i can't remember if it's in all.
Speaker 3: Stages or just that second, phase but, yeah really really
cool area and just again really cool like type of
character the whole like like the the faceless mother or
nameless like whatever is like his god is that he's.
Worshiping it's just so freaky and that whole area that
you're in is really really. Fascinating and uh, yeah just a,
cool cool.
Speaker 2: Design of an enemy. Too but, yeah that fight was like.
BULLSHIT i Like.
Speaker 3: Undodgeable, attacks fuck, off it's like the seat the scaliest
thing that you're. Mentioning, like it's just so frustrating where
you think that you're like getting, it getting you're doing
all the things, right but just.
Speaker 2: Yeah it just gets you with some ridiculous. Stuff so
those would be my last two that would shout out
For Elder.
Speaker 1: Ring, YEAH i think for, THAT i THINK i was over,
Leveled LIKE i THINK i came back to that pretty
late to do more so it ended up being a
bit easier THAN i think it should have, been but
it WAS i, mean it was, still with that, said
quite difficult and took me quite a lot of. Attempts
BUT i love the setting of, that and OBVIOUSLY i
love the underground world Of Eldon ring in, general so
that kind of being like the final moment of it
is is really.
Speaker 3: Great and especially like he has like the little like
cocoon thing that Like michael's corpse is just like like
the arm. Sticking it's just so it's so twisted and
dark and, weird and there's so much of that in
These souls.
Speaker 1: Games, yeah, Yeah, OKAY i have four, more two quick
shows and then two that i'll i'll talk a little
bit more about one Even. Night these are all From
Dark soul. Three Slave Night, gale WHO i think is
the final boss of one of the one of the
two DLC's just a classic dual. FIGHT i really like.
It he almost has like a machine gun crossbow at
one point, two which feels like it feels like they're
really deep in like The Bloodborne pocket when they're working
on THAT. Dlc there's like the design going on, There
BUT i think it might be like possibly the biggest
arena in all Of soul's, fights, possibly even though it's
like a small fight against like one. Guy BUT i
love the intro of it because you just enter this like, huge,
endless like like just sand dune. Landscape there's like no,
obstacles it's just big sand. Dunes and when as soon
as you end of the, fight you just see him
in the, distance this creepy. Fucker he's like a, guy
but he's like galloping towards, you and it takes them
like two minutes to get to you or, whatever and
it just it just creeps me the hell. Out but
it's it's kind of it's just weird and kind of
epic at the same. Time slave Night, Gale slave Night, Gale, yeah,
uh he's he's a weird he's a weird. Guy he's uh,
yeah he's something's not, right uh with. Him but, yeah
a classic classic, fight really tough one as. Well he
has a huge fricking health. Pool BUT I i just
remember the arena and the setting of it being extremely
distinct and kind of. Strange shout outs to the Nameless
king who's in like a kind of somewhat hidden area
Of Dark. Souls, three just like a nameless king on
top of a like a weird blue. Dragon two kind
of phases to the, fight like after you finally kill his,
dragon he gets off and he's, like you killed my.
Dragon i'm gonna kill. YOU i mean he says it
in a more weird from. Software but, yeah really really cool.
Fight he has really cool. Attacks really enjoyed that. One
and then my second last one here Is Freeda, freeda
AND i forget the full name of this boss fight.
Is it's it's the first ever and maybe maybe one
of the only three phase boss fights in uh in
A soul's. Game SO i think it starts out with
you one one on one Against freda and she's like,
this she's almost like a nun or something like in this.
Church you're fighting, her very classic kind of dual boss
fight against someone who's like kind of your. SIZE i
could be getting this wrong of how the three phases work.
Out it's been a few years. Now and then EVENTUALLY
i think it's like her, dad, yeah BECAUSE i think
you're fighting her and her dad is like this huge
giant guy and he's like sitting on like a throne
at the back of this, church and after you take
her out in the first, phase then he like jumps
off off the throne and you have to fight both
of them at the same. Time so now she's doing
her crazy. Attacks, meanwhile he's this guy with like this
giant cauldron who just like is like smashing the, ground
like chomping at. You his legs don't work out, things
so he's just like frantically crawling and like smashing stuff
coming towards, you so he's like constantly chasing you where
she's more like dodging around like the outside and like
spamming like long range. Attacks really really. Cool and then
eventually you take him out or maybe you take her,
out or maybe they both have a, helppool whatever it,
is and then it goes into phase three and now
it's just her, again but she's like cracked out of her.
Mind all of her powers have like way bigger aois
than they once, did and it is just. Epic so
it took me a lot of attempts because it's also
a long one because it's three whole phases and the
second phase has like two health BARS i think in.
It but, yeah really really epic, fight really really, cool
AND i felt really good WHEN i finally WHEN i
finally beat that.
Speaker 2: One that sounds. Crazy Dark soul's three is one That
i've only. Heard amazing.
Speaker 3: Thing many people that are fans in the series say
that's their favorite, one SO i am excited to get
to that. One you reminded me though of like the
two people like or the multi, phases just your descripts
of that. Battle also got a shout out The orenstein
And smoke classic battle From Dark soul's.
Speaker 2: One man that that one, is, LIKE i heard a
lot of things leading. Up that's like the two health bar, thing,
yeah and just like two freak show, design like one
is just ginormous with this big ass hammer and then
the other one's fast, nimble the Classic harry And. Marv,
yeah Well luigi And luigi type.
Speaker 1: Exactly and then my all time Favorite soul's boss fight
is The Abyss watchers From Dark souls three as. Well
starts out with like the coolest intro. Cinematic you walk
into this big, again it's almost like a church like.
Setting you walk in and there's two guys who kind
of look like clones of each, other and they're, fighting
and one of them like kills the other, one and
it kills like his, brother like his identical twin or.
Whatever and as you like enter this, arena you just
see like hundreds of bodies of other ones of these
abyss watchers that have all just in this eternal battle
killing each. Other you walk, in you see him like
stab his brother in the chest or whatever it, is
and then he just like slowly turns his helmet and
looks at, you and then you know battles on at that,
Point so absolutely epic intro for this boss. Fight and
it starts out again as a pretty classic, duel which
you can tell this is kind of like my favorite
is like the fighting a guy similar size to you
dual kind of. Thing at one point during the, fight
one of them will like wake up and he'll join
the fray as. WELL i don't think he has his
own health, bar and he has like red. Eyes so
me and my buddies when we were all fighting him
and watching taking turns like fighting, him we'd call. Him
we call That Big. Red all big reds in the
fight watch over For Big, red and then and then
Big red you can like Attack Big red and then
They'll Big red will attack you, back Or Big red
will also fight the main Abyss, watcher and so it's
this really fun dance of like trying to bounce them,
out trying to like bait them to like hit each
other so that they aggro against each other so you
can get some cheap shots IN uh and then the
classic once you take out that phase of the, fight
then the Abyss watcher, goes like in say no, mode
gets like a huge fire. Sword so now all their
attacks have like double the hip box that they did,
before and all the attacks have like you, know three
or four more moves in the, combos so just super
big fights AND i feel like or super long. Combos
AND i think for, me this was like the first
this is the first huge roadblock In Dark souls. Three
this is the first boss that took me hours and
hours and hours to, beat and it was one THAT
i you, know this is WHEN i lived With sarahs And,
clinton and So i'd Watched sarah's do this boss. FIGHT
i was, LIKE i THINK i was watching him do
that boss. Fighter is so what made me want to
play the. Games i'm, like this looks. AMAZING i want
TO i want to play this and he's super good
at these, games so he like crushed the Abyss watchers
like you, know few. Tries whatever takes him. OUT i
get there takes me hours and, hours and then just
the fun journey of them Watching, clinton who's played like
even less of these kinds of, games and it took
him so, long BUT i was there for like every
fight watching. Him we all like different play styles, too
so watching him like fight The Abyss watchers AND i don't,
know it's just a Very i've told this story before
a little, bit but just that iconic time for me
And Dark soul, three it was like very much me
and my two roommates just like all playing this game
at the same. Time IF i wasn't playing the, GAME
i was watching one of my roommates play, it And
Abyss watchers is to me like the highlight of that
experience and just such a cool boss. Fight you, Know
it's certainly not like the craziest design or the coolest
attack patterns or, whatever BUT i just love the atmosphere of.
IT i love the design of. IT i love having
like a neutral fighter in the. ARENA i think it's
like a really fun idea, Too and it felt so
frickin good WHEN i finally beat, it because anytime you
Died Abyss, watchers it's extremely. Fair there's no weird cheap,
shots there's no janky hip, boxes there's no like camera.
JANK i, mean if you're not looking and there's like
two of them and you're you, know but that's part
of the, fight is like making sure you're looking at
the right. Angles and, LIKE i think it does a
good job of teaching you to not rely so much
on lock on as, well because you kind of have
to unlock and make sure you're like scoping out the full.
Arena so, YEAH i love The Abyss. Watchers my favorite
boss fight and in the, series that's.
Speaker 2: AWESOME i love that. Origin, yeah that's.
Speaker 1: Good Uh, kirkland any last minute shout outs here or
have we covered our favorites and least favorites at this? Point?
Speaker 3: Uh? NO i MEAN i think we got all the
main the main head, honchos the ones THAT i wanted
to mention at, Least So i'm pretty happy with.
Speaker 2: That. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: YEAH i a you, know small apology to The bloodborne
fans of, course And Dark soul's two fans And Demon
souls fans because we Just i've. Played i've dabbled in
all these, games BUT i have not beat any of,
them and Like Dark soul's, One i've played quite a
a lot Of. Dartels three of, us we've played every
which way and played a lot Of Elder, ring and
you've kind of had a similar. JOm i guess we've
played similar. Games a lot Of Dark, souls won a
lot Of Elder. Ring but, yeah definitely have a lot
of pockets in. Here so this is definitely a list
we could revisit sometime in the future when we've played
more of these other games in the series and has
more of them. RELEASED i don't know If i'll be
picking up the new one from them this year on
the switch To we'll see If i'm getting. That But,
kirkle this is very fun to reminisce on the. Series
here your tales Of glory here as you finally rolled
credits on this Bad boy and so, yeah, again, congratulations
thank you everyone for. Listening, kirkling what's?
Speaker 2: Up got to ask?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 3: What what ending did you? Choose do you remember on
your Your Elder ring?
Speaker 2: Journey?
Speaker 1: OH i don't. Remember, no what are they offer?
Speaker 2: Again there's like nine or something There's, yeah there's quite a.
Bit there's quite a.
Speaker 1: BIT i definitely did not do like all the side
quest stuff BECAUSE i didn't know how Any yeah oh so.
Speaker 2: You probably just had like one to.
Speaker 1: GO i probably had the most basic ass bitch and,
YEAH i, guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah there you.
Speaker 3: GO i did The age of The stars. One that's
that's that's my first. ONE i sided With ronnie The
witch BECAUSE i love that character design so. MUCH i
also just love The, karians The karian manor with those
fucking hand, enemies just just really freaky cool. Designs so
that's WHERE i sided. With i'm curious where you sided
with if you just don't do any of the.
Speaker 1: SIDING i Like ronny, too BUT i don't THINK i
did enough of a request to, like, yeah you, know
side with. HER i guess.
Speaker 2: Probably.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's it's quite a long like side, quest so
you kind of have to go down yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Because there's one of, them like there's like a guy
howling in a tree and you have to go like activate,
him and.
Speaker 2: It's, like, yeah that's.
Speaker 1: OPTIONAL i ever gonna know about this?
Speaker 2: GUY i, Know, yeah it's.
Speaker 3: Ridiculous, yeah well you have to go to that. Area
and then that activates a dialogue sequence with like a
merchant in like a completely different.
Speaker 2: Area it's like how the like, What.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's, dumb but you, know some people are really
into how dumb it is AND i love. That thank
you for, Listening thank You kirklan for joining. Me well
you again next. Week bye bye bye